Today this seems funny...last night at 2:00 a.m. it was anything but. My son-in-law was at work (he works nights) and my daughter and grandson were asleep, when my dog decided he needed one more trip outside. I obliged and took him only to find the door had somehow locked behind me....OH OH. I trudged barefoot around the house and banged on my daughter's bedroom window to no avail...no lights and me stumbling all over everything.

I finally gave up with the banging....she was sleeping like the dead, and trudged off with my little dog in tow on his retractable leash to the nearest neighbor that was about a mile away. Down through the pine trees, pine cones, and gravel we went..me barefoot nd cutting my feet with every step. Then the dog decided in the darkened forest he has to wizz again and tangled his leash up all around a pine tree...no flashlight and I couldn't see a thing. I couldn't get him entangled so had to leave him...scared to death because things were howling in the night. You have to remember this is the hills of Tennessee. I trudged on by myself for another half mile with my feet bleeding till I came to the neighbors who thank God had a light on. The mom was up feeding her new baby. Did I mention it started thundering and raining on my trip...yeh that was one more goodie. I was also soaked to the bone. The neighbor looked at me in horror and said "what are you doing out so late".....yeh like I go visit every morning at 2:00 a.m.

Needless to say she gave me shoes and a towel to dry off with and her hubby and I started off on the journiey home (couldn't use the car...I needed to find my dog on the trail). We finally found him, (petrified and whining from all the howling going on around him) got him untangled after about 1/2 hr. in the rain, and trudged the rest of the way home. Did I mention he had a HUGE flashlight. We get home and he proceeds to pound on my daughter's siding outside her window with this huge flashlight and suddenly the shade goes up and there is my daughter in her birthday suit looking very bewildered.....she gasps and drops to her knees so only her head is now visiable and says "Mom what are you doing outside at this hour"...DUH.

To make a long story short she puts on her robe, lets me in, thanks the neighbor who she flashed, and has the nerve to lecture me......too funny. I told her I couldn't wake her and had to go for help. She felt so bad..she even helped me clean my feet (I had to of course return the shoes). Thankfully no harm came to my little dog or me...........and now the question is Does this count as excercise? I trudged 2 miles and today the scales say I'm 2 lbs. lighter? Something good should have come from this adventure...darned dog it was all his fault, but I love him to death.

Just wanted to share my late night adventure with you to lighten up the mood here and tell you I TRULY EXERCISED, and today my feet and everything inbetween hurts really bad. Worse yet everytime I get the leash out to take the dog out to do his thing he backs away...poor thing has been traumatized

I vote tonight's exercise is a nice swim in a hot tub with mebbe some oatmeal for your itching.

Oatmeal Bath for Itch Relief

Crumble 1 cup of uncooked oatmeal into a bath of lukewarm Water as the bath is filling. Soak 15-20 minutes and gently pat the burned area dry so that a thin coating of the oatmeal remains on your skin. (Be careful getting in and out of the tub, the oatmeal will make the bathtub very slippery.) This remedy is good for the itching that comes from a healing burn or sunburn.

Dody, I feel guilty because I am laughing while reading your story and feeling bad for you all at the same time. At least some good came out of it, you got some exercise, your dog has hopefully learned a lesson about late night potty breaks and your neighbor got flashed and something to tell the wife about, lol. Seriously though, I do hope your feet get to feeling better.